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Posted on 2007.12.24 at 22:46Current Location: home
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Recently, I have been thinking more and more about the future state of the world. Perhaps this comes from the impending new year, or maybe because I feel that I am growing into an adult (finally), or maybe because I think that I’ve realized a number of things that everyone else seems to be oblivious to. But regardless of the reason, I figured I’d post some of my thoughts on the future, if for no other reason than to prove that I predicted the future.
Tonight, while at dinner, I was force into a debate surrounding my admiration of Bush. Now by no means am I a fan of the president but I must admire his ability to be as productive and successful as he has been. I remember back in 2001, just after American troop invaded Afghanistan and before the invasion of Iraq, I was deeply disturbed by the president’s blatant disregard of the American people and the people of the entire world. So many people supported the military actions of the United States without hearing a shred of evidence supporting the invasion of Iraq that everyone knew was about to take place. The news media stopped asking questions and reported whatever the white house told them to. To me, I could see the entire world falling into chaos because people just stopped thinking and gave up so much of there rights just to feel safer. Of course the world has yet to fall into chaos. And if growing older has taught me anything it is that the world is in fact much more orderly then it was back then. Perhaps it is this that is the problem.
But I will move on, as to not sound like a left wing radical, pissed off because his team is loosing. If anything my team is winning. Hillary Clinton (Whom I predicted would run for president in my last entry) seems to be doing quiet well and is the most likely president of the United States. Good for her. But it comes to mind that my only reason for liking her is that I like her spirit. I think that she is the best candidate for no other reason then I like her style, confidence, and smarts. She doesn’t stand for anything particularly admirable. Rudy Giuliani, surprisingly, is the candidate I support most ideologically. He’s the only candidate who openly supports gay marriage and is pro-choice, all the other candidates are too afraid to loose voters to actually express their opinions and when they do express them I am generally let down by what they have to say.
America is trapped because people have stopped looking at the people who run the country to do something. People are paranoid but no one is willing to even consider the possibility of changing the situation. This past week, congress set a record for the shortest congressional hearing ever. Nine seconds. The purpose is to keep congress in session during the holiday season so the president won’t take advantage of a hiatus to appoint new judges or implement new orders without the congresses approval. So basically, kids, Congress is meeting because they are paranoid that the president will exploit them the second they lower their guards, but they aren’t using this time to do anything, at all. Nothing. Absolutely nothing is being done! And only thirty seconds of the evening news was devoted to this fact. The evening news was too busy talking about which stores had the best deals. Come on.
It is this reason that I feel truly hopeless about the future. I have begun to predict that I will see a revolution in my life time. I also predict that this revolution will be violent. But unlike many people I know, I feel hopeless about this revolution. The people who will revolt will do so for all the wrong reasons. People aren’t asking the right questions. Instead of blindly hating Bush, we must look at why we are in the place we are. What has lead the American people to trust men who don’t hide the fact that they lie? Why aren’t people standing up and demanding something better? The answers are deeply rooted in history, in the lowest class of people, and in where people are receiving their information.
So my prediction: It won’t matter who enters the white house, all the candidates are too weak to change anything. For the next big political movement we will have to look for it in the inner cities of America, particularly the Hispanic population. I believe there will be violence, after all violence will be the only thing worth reporting on the evening news. I think people will be reminded of the fear the Black Panthers created back in the day. (At this point I feel its important to understand the fall of the Black Panther came when crack became the drug of choice in the ghetto. Most major cities didn’t make any effort to stop the spread of crack in the inner cities, until white neighborhood became infected. The fall of the Black Panthers came only a few years after crack began ravaging black neighborhoods. Now we see the same pattern of “infection” with meth. Which is ravaging the Latino, gay, and black communities.) I also think that middle Americans will lead a revolution of their own, people will wise up eventually however they will be all to willing to settle for a few small trinkets, rather than any real change. I am reminded by something from 1984 which basically says that in a revolution only the middle and upper classes are affected. The middle class replacing the upper class and the upper class still leading an affluent lifestyle. Truly one of the biggest disappointments I predict for the future is that the middle class will never connect with the more anarchic revolution happening elsewhere. (Les Mis set the perfect example: “Do we fight for the right to a night at the opera now” These lyrics set the tone behind the reasoning of the French revolution, completely missing the fact that thousand of people were dying of starvation. I believe this to be our future)
My solution: I am hopeful about the future, despite all of the above, because I believe in the American dream. I believe that people have the power to change the course of their world. But they need to do it financially, they need to demand high levels of information from there government and their news sources. We must be willing to prove that we will pay extra if we know we are being told the truth and that we will pull all possible funding out of companies that don’t hold to our ideals. We must begin to ask deeper questions. We must not be satisfied with an image. We must demand substance.
So why I like George W. Bush: We must understand that we can’t hate the president for his exploitation of, well just about everyone. We never expected anything better from him. We spend more money on reading about Britney Spears’ personal life then we do on her music. Our priorities are so out of proportion that we can no longer expect our democratically elected leaders to stand up for what’s right. Before we can demand better from others we must ask better from ourselves. George Bush lied to America, and was quite honest about it. (It occurs to me that in all likelihood he would have been brought down if he had lied about his lies~ think Bill Clinton. But because there is no news in reporting that the president openly admitted that he lied and that all the new people were too lazy to research and believed him.)
I end my Christmas news letter by saying that I believe I will see a great many things in my life time, some good, some bad, but I believe that this generation will neither be better or worse than any of the other generations before it, only different. Kids are learning about sex earlier but they are also learning to use safe sex practices earlier. They are being presented with the idea of sexuality in a way that, even, my generation never experienced. I think the next generation will ask more questions then my generation and that it will be my children who will really make the difference. Our children will learn from a generation who knows what it means to be lied to, they will rebel against us by expecting more. Our children will be the people I will admire most in my lifetime because they will understand what I’m writing about tonight better than I do.
Lets try not to fuck them up too bad, shall we. Folks.
Tonight, while at dinner, I was force into a debate surrounding my admiration of Bush. Now by no means am I a fan of the president but I must admire his ability to be as productive and successful as he has been. I remember back in 2001, just after American troop invaded Afghanistan and before the invasion of Iraq, I was deeply disturbed by the president’s blatant disregard of the American people and the people of the entire world. So many people supported the military actions of the United States without hearing a shred of evidence supporting the invasion of Iraq that everyone knew was about to take place. The news media stopped asking questions and reported whatever the white house told them to. To me, I could see the entire world falling into chaos because people just stopped thinking and gave up so much of there rights just to feel safer. Of course the world has yet to fall into chaos. And if growing older has taught me anything it is that the world is in fact much more orderly then it was back then. Perhaps it is this that is the problem.
But I will move on, as to not sound like a left wing radical, pissed off because his team is loosing. If anything my team is winning. Hillary Clinton (Whom I predicted would run for president in my last entry) seems to be doing quiet well and is the most likely president of the United States. Good for her. But it comes to mind that my only reason for liking her is that I like her spirit. I think that she is the best candidate for no other reason then I like her style, confidence, and smarts. She doesn’t stand for anything particularly admirable. Rudy Giuliani, surprisingly, is the candidate I support most ideologically. He’s the only candidate who openly supports gay marriage and is pro-choice, all the other candidates are too afraid to loose voters to actually express their opinions and when they do express them I am generally let down by what they have to say.
America is trapped because people have stopped looking at the people who run the country to do something. People are paranoid but no one is willing to even consider the possibility of changing the situation. This past week, congress set a record for the shortest congressional hearing ever. Nine seconds. The purpose is to keep congress in session during the holiday season so the president won’t take advantage of a hiatus to appoint new judges or implement new orders without the congresses approval. So basically, kids, Congress is meeting because they are paranoid that the president will exploit them the second they lower their guards, but they aren’t using this time to do anything, at all. Nothing. Absolutely nothing is being done! And only thirty seconds of the evening news was devoted to this fact. The evening news was too busy talking about which stores had the best deals. Come on.
It is this reason that I feel truly hopeless about the future. I have begun to predict that I will see a revolution in my life time. I also predict that this revolution will be violent. But unlike many people I know, I feel hopeless about this revolution. The people who will revolt will do so for all the wrong reasons. People aren’t asking the right questions. Instead of blindly hating Bush, we must look at why we are in the place we are. What has lead the American people to trust men who don’t hide the fact that they lie? Why aren’t people standing up and demanding something better? The answers are deeply rooted in history, in the lowest class of people, and in where people are receiving their information.
So my prediction: It won’t matter who enters the white house, all the candidates are too weak to change anything. For the next big political movement we will have to look for it in the inner cities of America, particularly the Hispanic population. I believe there will be violence, after all violence will be the only thing worth reporting on the evening news. I think people will be reminded of the fear the Black Panthers created back in the day. (At this point I feel its important to understand the fall of the Black Panther came when crack became the drug of choice in the ghetto. Most major cities didn’t make any effort to stop the spread of crack in the inner cities, until white neighborhood became infected. The fall of the Black Panthers came only a few years after crack began ravaging black neighborhoods. Now we see the same pattern of “infection” with meth. Which is ravaging the Latino, gay, and black communities.) I also think that middle Americans will lead a revolution of their own, people will wise up eventually however they will be all to willing to settle for a few small trinkets, rather than any real change. I am reminded by something from 1984 which basically says that in a revolution only the middle and upper classes are affected. The middle class replacing the upper class and the upper class still leading an affluent lifestyle. Truly one of the biggest disappointments I predict for the future is that the middle class will never connect with the more anarchic revolution happening elsewhere. (Les Mis set the perfect example: “Do we fight for the right to a night at the opera now” These lyrics set the tone behind the reasoning of the French revolution, completely missing the fact that thousand of people were dying of starvation. I believe this to be our future)
My solution: I am hopeful about the future, despite all of the above, because I believe in the American dream. I believe that people have the power to change the course of their world. But they need to do it financially, they need to demand high levels of information from there government and their news sources. We must be willing to prove that we will pay extra if we know we are being told the truth and that we will pull all possible funding out of companies that don’t hold to our ideals. We must begin to ask deeper questions. We must not be satisfied with an image. We must demand substance.
So why I like George W. Bush: We must understand that we can’t hate the president for his exploitation of, well just about everyone. We never expected anything better from him. We spend more money on reading about Britney Spears’ personal life then we do on her music. Our priorities are so out of proportion that we can no longer expect our democratically elected leaders to stand up for what’s right. Before we can demand better from others we must ask better from ourselves. George Bush lied to America, and was quite honest about it. (It occurs to me that in all likelihood he would have been brought down if he had lied about his lies~ think Bill Clinton. But because there is no news in reporting that the president openly admitted that he lied and that all the new people were too lazy to research and believed him.)
I end my Christmas news letter by saying that I believe I will see a great many things in my life time, some good, some bad, but I believe that this generation will neither be better or worse than any of the other generations before it, only different. Kids are learning about sex earlier but they are also learning to use safe sex practices earlier. They are being presented with the idea of sexuality in a way that, even, my generation never experienced. I think the next generation will ask more questions then my generation and that it will be my children who will really make the difference. Our children will learn from a generation who knows what it means to be lied to, they will rebel against us by expecting more. Our children will be the people I will admire most in my lifetime because they will understand what I’m writing about tonight better than I do.
Lets try not to fuck them up too bad, shall we. Folks.
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